I found it out a month ago, it's even said in expert tutorial. What you did is "Jump canceling", because you could jump after the 623+B attack. Well, I first learned it when I accidently chained 623+B to a 2369+A. Then I found out the technique "jump canceling"

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And by "extra button" I assume you mean 22"8"+C.

But I must say: "Nice one, Inferno!"
Yes, I seriously mean it.

EDIT: I hope I didn't sound sarcastic, because it wasn't my intention.
After you discovered the way to go bow mode, it motivated me to create a new combo. After 20 minutes of vs'ing and practicing, I finally discovered a new combo to Archer. 4882 Damage instead of 3642 damage.
Gotta give some thanks to Inferno. You motivated me to create a new combo! Thanks!

AvatarofRage wrote:Well, i find the d-pad more accurate, or rather, analog to unreliable, but then again my controller's not weathered well. (it only has 1-2 screws holding the thing together for starters.)

As for pain, when I first got F/UC I played it till I had blisters on my thumbs. Then I padded my thumbs and kept playing with blisters. But thats just me being obsessive and playing for hours on end.

yea same here. i reckon the arcade stick is too small for my hands. cant even move around properly cause of it

Aside an Arcade stick I don't see any other way playing a fighting game besides a D-Pad, Analog is just utterfail trying to do precise moves. Fate is possible but the game is very sensitive to button directions so yeah more then likely you're going to be jumping around by mistake.

This is probably one of my favourite console games ever, if not my most favourite. I have the PS2 version, and I play a K&B UBW Archer. Incidentally, I don't know if anyone else does this, but for his BNB instead of the standard 2b 5b 6b 6c chant 2a 2b 5b 6b 6c 2c 623b jump ja jb jump ja jb jc, I replace the 623b with 214b, which mixes in an extra hit for more damage and an extra bit of chip damage if they're guarding, so I get 2b 5b 6b 6c chant 2a 2b 5b 6b 6c 2c 214b jump ja jb jump ja jb jc as my basic. Still working on managing the 4 chant combo reliably /

On the topic of analogue sticks, the only sticks that really work for fighters are arcade ones, and even then a pad is better. I have a logitech cable that allows me to connect my ps2 controller to my pc for when I play pc fighters, it makes it much more fun. Though codes is my favourite fighter.

And a random side note - who else uses Berserker as their announcer for the hilarity of "Round x, fight!" becoming "Raawr rawr, RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWR!"?